Synonyms & related words for infanticide

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of infanticide. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to infanticide

Explore words related to infanticide — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include filicide, matricide, uxoricide, matricidal, patricide, parricide, feticide, patricidal. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does infanticide come from?

The word infanticide breaks down into 2 roots of Latin origin: infant-, from Latin infans (“unable to speak”); and -cid, from Latin caedo (“cut, kill”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.